Selected Full-length Plays

Spring Tides (formerly titled On the Line)

Jane, newly pregnant, escapes onto a beach through a closet door and finds a strangely-familiar world under attack. As she, a greaser, and a Spanish nun battle monsters and brandish swords and stones, the line between real and imaginary blurs, and to save them all, Jane will have to make the decision of her life.

Productions: Boomerang Theatre Company, NYC

Cardboard Box Collaborative, Philadelphia

Ohio University Mainstage

Readings: Boomerang Theatre Company's First Flight Reading Series

Le Petit Chandelier, curated by Jean Taylor, NYC

Brooklyn College Directors Lab, Theatre Row, NYC

CAT Tales, City Attic Theatre, NYC

Victory Gardens (showcase), Chicago

The Frankophile (formerly titled The Critic)

Alceste, the infamous misanthrope, has left his place in Moliére's play in search of a world up to his standards. After four centuries of refusing change and running from play to play, he is confronted by Moliére, returned from the dead and hell-bent on rewriting him entirely. Faced with the deadline of his life, Alceste must swallow his pride, face his past, and discover that even stock characters have the power to change.

Production: City Attic Theatre, NYC

Reading: Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, NYC

Staged Reading: Ohio University Playwrights’ Festival

Flutesong

Fran is mourning the death of her estranged daughter Cathy when she is confronted by a young woman named Aiko, who insists that Cathy is actually alive. But to learn more, Fran will have to let Aiko stay-- in Cathy's old room. As Aiko settles in, the secrets she holds begin to overturn Fran's sense of what's real.

Reading: Ohio University Playwrights’ Festival

The True Story of Harold Tubbsman

Harold has amnesia. His wife welcomes him back to their chicken farm. A spy arrives to remind him that he's undercover, not really married, and that she's his lover. The spy is hot. The wife is not. Which truth would you choose?

American College Theatre Festival, Region III Finalist

First Place, Alpha Psi Omega Playwriting Contest

Production: Central Michigan University

The Summer That God Paid a Visit to Hell

Gina is another small-town girl in Hell, Michigan who seems destined for an average "townie" life: she's pregnant, working at the local dive bar, and not seeing a lot of possibilities. Secretly, though, she's always felt she was meant for more-- that she was born for greatness. Then the angel Gabriel arrives, announcing she's the new mother of God. Now she just has to convince everybody else.

Second Place, Alpha Psi Omega Playwriting Contest

Productions: Hong Kong Cultural Center, Hong Kong

Central Michigan University

Selected Short Plays

True

Maya wants to play "two truths and a lie". Baz wants to talk about the truth. Maya's ready to slug him, if he didn't keep slipping away. A play written for teenagers.

Productions: As part of Hall Pass: Future of Storytelling Festival (Blindspot Collective)

NYU Forum on Site-Specific Performance

Additional performances in high schools in California

Release

Beth has decided to move out of big sis' apartment and is getting rid of everything she doesn't need. This may include her arms, her legs, and probably her ex-boyfriend.